Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, b. 1985

Born in 1985 in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mirza Cizmic is a Helsinki-based artist who primarily works with oil on primed paper. His practice also includes sculpture, performance, and video works. Cizmic’s artistic expression is rooted in personal experience. Rather than painting through a conventional visual lens, he interprets the world through the filter of lived experience. His artistic language is divided into two instincts: one objective and formal, the other subjective and deeply personal. This duality creates a process of moving from confusion toward understanding. He actively engages with the boundaries between art and life, art and society, and art and activism. His role as an artist is shaped by constant self-questioning, aiming to dismantle conventional taboos, depoliticize the discourse, and highlight the core of human experience.